Student Services
ADMISSIONS
The Department of Student Admissions, Attendance and Transfers implements enrollment requirements pertaining to residency and guardianship rules. The team develops and provides comprehensive training for ct personnel related to policies and procedures for student admissions. In addition, assistance is provided to parents, guardians, and foreign exchange organizations in resolving issues related to admissions.
TRANSFERS
The department provides support to students, campus and district personnel, and the community regarding all aspects of the Student Transfer Process. Training is provided to campus administrators, registrars, and district support staff detailing the student transfer policies and procedures.
ATTENDANCE
The department also works closely with campus administration and the Justice of the Peace Courts in applying Truancy Prevention Measures (TPMs). Support may include letters, contracts, parent/student conferences, home visits for non-attendance, and verifying residency. In addition, Leaver Code Audits are conducted with secondary registrars to ensure accurate documentation in compliance with PEIMS Data Standards. The department actively works with campus Dropout Prevention Specialists and registrars to locate and recover any student that may be in danger of becoming a dropout.
HOMELESSNESS/FAMILIES IN TRANSITION
The Families in Transition (FIT) program provides support and services to students and families experiencing homelessness, as defined by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act. If you have lost housing due to:
- Economic hardship (can’t afford rent, eviction, job loss, foreclosure, sudden increase in housing costs).
- Natural disasters (fire, flood, storm damage, or other events that make a home unlivable).
- Domestic violence or abuse (leaving home for safety reasons or being forced out of the home).
- Unstable living arrangements (frequent moves due to inability to pay rent or utilities).
- Incarceration of a parent/guardian.
Please contact the FIT Team at 281.517.2117 or complete a CFISD Student Residency Questionnaire and email it to mckinneyvento@cfisd.net.
A member of the FIT team will contact you to discuss eligibility and available services. For more information about the McKinney-Vento Act and the FIT program, please visit the Families in Transition (FIT) webpage.
FOSTER CARE
Foster care, or out-of-home care, is the system that a child enters when a child cannot live safely at home and a court of law grants legal custody to the State of Texas. A child “in foster care” can be in either the temporary or permanent conservatorship of DFPS.
“Conservatorship” is a term also used in the Texas Education Code and by DFPS to describe the status of a child who is placed in DFPS legal custody by a court order. While a child is in foster care, DFPS may place the child in several different types of living arrangements. These include:
- Relative/kinship caregiver or ‘fictive kin’ (a close family friend),
- Foster family homes,
- Cottage homes,
- Residential treatment centers and emergency shelters,
- Facilities overseen by another state agency,
- Adoptive family, or
- Supervised independent living (SIL) arrangement.
CFISD is committed to identifying and serving all students in conservatorship of DFPS. For additional information, please contact the district's Foster Care Liaison at 281.517.2637.